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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's policy, as ex'
pressed to Southern democrat before his
Inauguration, has been to increase the num-
Der of Northern democratic States. He has
been in Office now nearly three years-sure
Ly long enough to test the effectiveness of
that policy. That it doesn't work we'll
mu st be as patent to him as it is to every
BODY else. Wouldn't il be we'll for him and
for his party to abandon it now, and revert
to the policy of his good and true democrat
ic predecessors?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
ALEX ANDRIA.
wEpN EsDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9.

AMID THE general acclaim throughout
Virginia at the utter defeat and route Oh
Malone and Mahoneism, there is one cause
Of sorrow-the fact that enough white men
were found in Alexandria who, by uniting
with the negroes of the city and those who
were brought from Washington, were en-
abled to make the county town OF both
Washington End Lee reverse it's former
democratic majority, and proclaim itself to
the world as willing to submit to the lgno'
mipious woke of the man whose vote pre-
vented the repeal of the statute prohibiting
ak Confederates from holding commissions
in the u. 8. army.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

COURT OF APPEALS YEsTERDAY.-Field
vs.. Marye, Auditor. Argued by Col John
Il. Guy for plaintiff in error, and W. R. Mer.
edith. esq for Commonwealth, and con-
tinued.
Commonwealth vs. Lucas. Continued
Commonwealth vs. Plunkett; Common.
wealth vs. Krise; Commonwealth va. Lar
kin. Argued by Attorney General and SUBJ
mitted
Anderson vs.. the Commonwealth. AR.
gued by George Bryan, esq.,, for plaintiff in
error, and Attorney General for Common
wealth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
THERE WERE a good many strangers frou

THERE WERE good many strangers from
Washington in the city yesterday, who came
here to see Virginia election. What
struck them az the strangest of all the things
they saw, was the fact that while the ne
proes voted as unit, the white men divided.
They seemed to think that a division of the
whites. under the circumstances, was un.
natural in Southern community. But no
man has ever truly portrayed either the in
consistency or the depravity of human ma
ture.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
Trouble Ayerted.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenu., Nov. 9.-Sheriff
Connor has just arrived from the soddy
mines. The ringesders of the rioters have
been arrested and everything is quiet.
When the mountaineers learned of the ar
rival of the sherif7s posse they returned to
the mountains and were afraid to make an
attack. Several deputies are still at the
mines to prevent further trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

GENERAL MAHoNE having now suffered
a decisive defeat, Virginia may we'll felicitate
herself upon the elimination of Mahonelsm
from her politics. and the relief she will ex-
perience from the abandonment of his
methods" and the removal OF his "mallGn
Influence" The General should, and prob
ably will, henceforth and forever, eschew
politics and conGne himself to his business
affairs, in which, if reports be true, he has
been eminently successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
Fatal Accident.

NEwBURGH, N. Y, Nov 9.-Near Walden
last night Alva Miller's team ran away.
They broke loose from the wagon and Mil
Ter became entaugled in the lines. He was
dragged distance Of three miles and fear
fully mangled. He died of his injuries this
morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

Now THAT the negro lin Alexandria, within
sight of the White Bouse, aud the mugwump in
Massachusetts, have as expected by sl men with
open eyes, exhibited their true colors under trial.
it is hoped the President will learn the lesson OF
the utter nutilty If catering any longer to those
element. of the couRtrys voting population.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
The Rcsulfin the State.

From the latest intelligence received at
the democratic headquarters in this city this
evening the following is learned
The democrats have carried the following
senatorial districts Shenandoah and Page !;
Clarke, Frederick and Warren Alexandria
Fairfax and Prince William; Campbell !;
Bedford; Plttsylvanie Hanover and Caro-.
line and the southampton district.
The republicans seem to have carried
Rockingham Lunenburg, Nortoway, and
Brunswick Amelia, Cumberland and Prince
Edward; King George, etc; Elizabeth City,
etc; Montgomery, Craig and Roanoke.
The democratic senators certainly elected
to the Senate yesterday, added 10 those who
hold over, give them possession Of that body
by large majority.
The democratcs have elected tho follow.
ing members of the House: Accomac; Ac
comac and Northampton Albemarle. . ;
Appomattox; Augusta, 2; Amherst; Bed
ford, 2; Botetourt; Buchanan, Wise aud
Dickinson; Carroll Caroline; Charlotte !;
Clarke and Warren; Culpeper; Fairfax !;
Fauquier; Franklin Frederick; Greene and
Madison; Halifax. Q; Hanover; Isle of
Wight; Loudouu Loudoun and Fauguier;
Lunenburg, Middesex and Matthews; Nell
son; Orange Page; Pittsylyania, 8; Prince
Edward Prince William; Pulaski and
Giles Rsppahannock Rockbridge, 2; Rus
sell; Roanoke and Craig; Shenandoah (;
Smyth and Bland; Southampton; Spotsyl.
vania; Washington, 2; Portsmouth Nor
folk, 3; Richmond city, 4.
The republicans have probably elected the
following: Alexandria city aud county
Amelia aud Nottoway Charles City and
New Kent; Elizabeth City, Warwick, James
City, and York Floyd; GreenvilIe and
Sussex Henrico ; Henry King William
Louisa Mecklenburs Montgomery; Nor.
folk county Nansemobd; Patrick Prince
George and Surry Petersburg city Rock.
iDgham Scott Tazewell Wythe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

DEv1LIsH AS are the condemned Chicago an
archists they do not compare in bloodthirsty ma
Lightly with the man or men who removed the
supports from the floor of the building in Rich
mond in which sdemocratic meeting was to be held
last Saturday night
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

THE RESULT of the election in this city
and county yestelf day shows the necessity
for yearly registrdt ion, as all the Northern
cities have. The legislature should make
suitable provision for the required object as
soon as possible. Alexandria should never
again be carried by Washington negroes who
never come here except on election days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
Forest Fire and Drought.

. EVANSVILLE, Ind, Nov. 9.-Forest fires
continue in this section with increased force.
Throughout Southern Illinois steamboat
navigation mas been impeded, and through
out the drought districts of Western Ken
lucky great distress continues from the wa
ter famine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

81 caught cold some,Ohere," she remark.
ed. Probably it was in your head 7" he
suggested, chuckling over his wit, "if SO
respectfully prescribe DR.. Bulls Cough Sy-
rup. Here it ISL
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

JUST BEFORE THE GAME OPRNED.-Inno-
cent looking youth don't mind taking
band, though, 1 haven't played game of
poker in ten years. Let's see; what does
five aces beat?
Host (who has met the same kind of man
bofore)-Play the swivel.eye lay, boys.
Que eye on the cards and the ether on your
chips.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
mumps.

IT Is TO be supposed that every man who votes
10 Alexandria is interested TO some extent at
least III the citys welfare. But how Malone
member of the House of Delegates from Aiexan-
dria cen promote the welfare OF the city in an an
ti.Mabope legislature is not easy to tell
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

EVERY R1aHr-THISErSa democrat in the coun-
trv is reioced at the election OF COL Fellows to
the district attorIeyship Of New York over his
opponent. Mr. Nicoll. who failing to get the DEM
ocratic nomination for the Office. accepted that of
tue republicans and supported by the mug
NUMB
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
Sullivan and Mitchell.

LONDON, Nov. 9.-Mitchell failed to meet
Sullivan yesterday and arrange terms for a
fight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

HIEAS-Having bought largely of Teas, care.
i fully selected, am selling the same very low.
sep23 J. G. MILBURN.
A NICE LINE OF FEATHER BUSTERS at
"A reasonable prices just opened at
oct13 McBURNEY's
DOTTED MEAT5-Ham, Beef, Tongue, Turkey
L Chicken, Duck and Game.
a1g1O GEO. McRURNEY & SON,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS.

NoTICE-The undersigned, purchaser of the
~ corporate property and franchises of the
ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAIL.
ROAD COMPANY, as evidenced by deed from
N. F. Peasants, master and special commissioner,
dated November 9Th, 1887, having in said deed
set forth as the name Of the corporation created
by virtue of such purchase and conveyance as
THE Alexandria and Washington Hallway Com.
pany," and having created capital stock in, and
having declared the stockholders OF, said The
Alexandria and Washington Railway Company to
be himself aud assigns the undersigned now gives
notice that the first meeting Of the stockholders
of said The Alexandria and Washington Railway
Company will be held on the 23d DAY OF No
yEMBER, 1887, at twelve o'clock moor, at the
general offices of the company, at Alexandria,
Virginia. for the purpose of electing the President
and Directors of the said The Alexandra and
Washington Railway Company. The stockholders
entitle1 TO vote at said meeting will be the un.
dersigned and his lawful assigns.
FRANCIS L. SMITH,
Purchaser of the works, property, rights privi.
eges and franchises of The AleTandris and
Washington Railroad Company. nov8 I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

NEW YoRK, Nov. 9.-Cotton nominal; uplands
10; Orleans 10ls; futures easy Flour quiet and
steady. Wheat BITTER. Corn quiet and firm.
Pork steady at S14 O0s14 %: old mess steady
at S13 so. Lard firm at So 97lb
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

Mr.. Geo. W. Morgan denies that Gov. Gordon
of Georgia, kissed him at the recent public meet
ing in Cleveland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

CHICAGO, Nov. 8, IL g. Nall the markets
with the exception of Pork opened very quiet this
morning. Grain values were very close to Mon
days latest prices. Dec Wheat opened ct 1873
and is now 1874. May Corn started at ASH and
is now 454.. Jan Pork is quoted at $l2 TO- Jan
Lard Sc 4215. Jan short ribs SO 371b.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

Miss Van Zandt has been refused further ad-
mission into the Chicago Jail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

There is but little change in Flour; common
grades are a shade lower, but well established
brands Of fa.sy family continue firm and steady.
Wheat is quiet and without new features; 1900
bushels were sold on Change this morning at T3,
70 and 70, as to condition. Corn is rather more
active with small receipts. Rye and Oats arc
higher Eggs are unusually scarce Other pro-
duce is in good demand with tendency to better
prices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09

BALTIMORE, Nov. Cotton strong; middling
9%. Flour nominaly steady and dull; How
ard street and Western super 50 37a2 rs; do
extra So 00a3 CO. do family $3 Toad SO; city
mills supor So 37a2 co: do extra So 00a3 GO;
do Rio brands 81 25a4 90; Patapsco superlatiye
patent So % ; do family 81 80. Wheat-South
ern firm; red S0aS3 amber 92aSa Western in
active but frmer; No winter red spot 80as0h
Dec 91a.aS2; Jan 937ssS4; May SS3ssS97s.
Corn-southern firm; white 4Sa51; yellow Ala
40; Western dull but firm and higher; mixed spot
49lha5O; Dec 49&a5oA year 4Sa.a491s Dat,
in fair demand and steady Southern and Penns
25a32 Western white 35a36; do mixed 33a34.
Rye flrmer at 60s62. Hay quiet and easy prime
to choice Western $13a15. Provisions quiet and
steady. Mess Pork S14 10. Bulk meats-shoud.
ers and clear rib sides packed 61aas4.. Bacon
shoulders 71aa9A; clear rib sides 81. /; hams II
e12s.. Lard-refned 8. Butter firm Western
packed 1920; creamery 21a25. Eggs firm at
23a24. Coffee weak and lower Rio cargoes ordi-
nary to fair 17Aa1S. Sugar steady; a soft ga.
Whiskey steady at 81 14a1 Is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-09
MARINE NEWS.

MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA, NOVEMBER o, 1887.
Sun rises.............6 "a Sun sets..........4 Sd
SAILED.
schr Maggie Hart, Georgetown, by F Reed
s. Co.
schr Howard & Ogden, St. Mary's river, lumber
by q D Smoot
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
Begin at Home.
Sunday School Times.

A slovenly carpenter was heard at a
weekly prayer meeting to pray with
great fervency for the spread of Christ's
cause-a cause which he disgraced and
hindered in his sphere every time he
stood at his work bench. When he
ended his prayer hearty 'amenl' came
from a servant who put her mistress out
of temper hundred times day by hel
carelessness.
A clerk also was there, who, although
he taught class in the mission school
on Sunday, was always late at his en-
ployer's store on week days. He whis-
pered 'amen,' too, and meant it so fal
as he knew himself.
A lady nearer, as she listened, resolv-
ed to join the church missionary socie-
ty, and then went home and found un-
reasonable fault with her cook. And
others also felt warming to do some.
thing for Christ, who never seemed to
have thought that religion, like charity,
begins at home. The mechanic, who
is powerful in class meeting, and weak
at his trade is no credit to the profession
he makes.
The servant who drops tears feelingly
at religious services, and drops dishes
unfeelingly in the kitchen, has her ten,
derness altogether too much on one side.
And it is poor kind of religion
which seeks opportunities to set Others
straight, but overlooks its own crooked
ness.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
He Felt Hurt.

See here!' said farmer as he enter
ed restaurant the other day. 4 don't
like the way have been used.
whats. wrong2' asked the restau-
ranter.
Last March bought can of oysters
here.
'Yes, l remember
when l took it home my wife sug
gested that we put it away down cellar
for Fourth of July When we opened
it on the glorious Fourth
Great ScotSl'
'Yes, you'd have said great Scots and
little Scots and all other sorts of Scots.
You said they were fresh oysters, and l
took your word for it and paid forty
cents in cash.
The restauranter counted out forty
cents, placed the change in the mans
hand, and motioned him to go out.
'Thankee, said the farmer as he back
ed out, you are square man, and |
told my wife you were probably deceiv-
ed in the oysters yourself. One of my
neighbors said he smelt 'em seven miles
down the road. Thankee- this is k'rect.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
TOWsONTOWN, Md, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1887.
Right Man in Right Place.
He'd phenomenal capacity

He'd phenomenal capacity
For rmyth and unveracity,
And details most impossible he'd give with per
spicacity
With legends most apocryphal
Relentlessly he'd talk you full
And tell the truth with trembling fear, but liz
with great audacity.
He would sit and calmly chronicle
Tales absurd and uncanonical
With an air of perfect frankness and without 6
smile sardonical;
Misty legendary fancies
That you read of in romances,
With an autocratic accent and a manner histrion
ical.
And he told with great verbosity,
And lingual velocity,
Lies Of most artistic finish and phenomenal mon
strosity;
Lies that shamed the race Of liars
Since the time of Ananias,
That would make the Munchausen green with
jealous animosity.
But his talent gave him station
And superb remuneration,
For he worked upon paper at princely COM
pensation;
On an enterprising journal
Ho gave his oath diurnal,
And awore by affidavit to its monstrous circula.
ton. s. w. Foss in Tid Bits.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
What a Wife Ought TO Know.

Very few men have the time or the
patience to make a shilling go as far as
it can; women have. Especially wo.
man whose one thought is to save her
husband from having burdens greater
than he can bear; to help him by that
quiet carelessness in money matters
which alone gives an easy mind and a
real enjoyment of life; to take care of
the pennies, in short, that he may have
the pounds free for all his lawful needs,
and lawful pleasures, too.
Surely there can be no sharper pang
to a loving wife than to see her husband
staggering under the weight of family
life; worked almost to death in order
to dodge the wolf at the door, joyless
in the present, terrified at the future /;
and yet all this might have been averted
if the wife had only known the value
and use of money, and been able to
keep what her husband earned; to 'cut
her coat according to her cloth, for any
income is limited unless you can teach
yourself to live within it; to waste not,
and therefore to want not.
But this is not always the woman's
fault. Men may insist blindly on style
of living which their means will not al
low; and many wife has been cruelty
blamed for living at rate of expendi-
ture eunwarranted by her husbands means
and which his pecuniary condition made
absolutely dishonest, had she known it..
But she did not know it, he being too
careless or too cowardly to tell her, and
she had not the sense to inquire or to
find out.
Every mistress of household, espe-
cially every mother, ought to find out
what the family income is, and where it
comes from, and thereby prevent all
needless extravaganza.
Halfthe miserable or disgraceful bank
ruptcies never would happen ifthe wives
had the sense and courage to stand firm
and insist on knowing enough about the
family income to expend it proportion
ately; to restrain, as every wife should,
a too lavish husband; or, failing that,
to stop herself out of all luxuries which
she cannot righteously afford.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
Sleep "a Preventive of Headache

A scientific writer says: Sleep, il
taken at the right moment, will prevent
an attack of nervous headache. If the
subjects of such headaches will watch
the symptoms of its coming, they can
notice that it begins with a feeling OF
WEAKNESS or heaviness. This is the time
sleep of an hour, or even two, as ma,
ture guides, will effectually prevent the
headache. If not taken just then, it
will be too late, for, after the attack is
fairly under way, it is impossible to get
sleep till far into the night, perhaps. 1t
is SO common in these days for doctors
to forbid having their patients walked to
take medicine if they are asleep when
the hour comes round, that the people
have learned the lesson pretty we'll, and
they generally know that sleep is better
for the sick than medicine. But it is
not so we'll known that sleep is won
derful preventive of disease-better than
tonic regulators and stimulants.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
Wild Animals i'm Winter.

One OF Nature most important meth
ods of preserving animal life is by hi
bernation. The lower animals, as insects
and some reptiles, become to all appear
ance entirely dormant, live without es-
sential change during the cold winter,
and wake to active life only when food
is again ready for them. Others, like
the woodchuck, after growing fat on
the abundant food of autumn, roll them
selves up in nest and sleep. Vital ac-
ton is lowered, they consume but little
oxygen, and live upon the stores of fat
with which they went into winter quar-
tiers. The black bear generally hiber-
mates in caves and under old tree tops,
but he is never so sleepy that he is not
ready for battle if disturbed; and far
ther south, he does not hibernate at all.
In New England he grows fat on green
corn, roots and nuts in the fall, and so
he has had the credit of growing fat by
Sucking his paws This old notion is
only an illustration of theories in me-
chanic life that something can come of
nothing. The truth about the bear is
that he grows thin every day he lies in
his den.
The third general method of preserv-
ing the species through winter is by mi
grafton, as best seen among birds, but
practised also by some of the higher
mammals.
AS the autumn advances, many of the
smaller birds from our midst and from
the far North, quietly make their way
South to find warmer weather and new
stores of food for the winter months.
Others assemble in focks, and seem to
have grave consultations over the pro-
jected journey. The metallic note of the
wild goose comes to us from among the
clouds as, night and day, the focks wend
their way in long lines to the South.
Long before they appear with us, they
collect their broods in the lakes and
bays near their breeding places and seem
to be organizing for the long flight which
most of them are to take for the first
time to a land that most of them have
never seen; for of every flock that starts
from most of their northern resting
places, the larger part are young and
have never flown but few miles before
they commence their long flight to an
unknown land. They follow their lead
er, it is said. When did the first leader
learn the way?
We have seen them in the bays of
Newfoundland gathering like a great
army practising for days, and then one
flock after another separates itself from
the great host and follows its chosen
leader to the South. They return in
spring even while snow and ice abound,
to be ready for the opening of the short
northern summer. In the long days of
the North, and by the unmolested bays
of Newfoundland and Labrador, they
find the best conditions for rearing their
young.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22

p@~She (to her partner after lively
ladies' chain n)-Wuz dat you, Misto
Tolliver, what squeeze my han in ladies
to de right2
Partner-I dunno; did yen squeeze
back?
She-The idah! Why, of cose not.
Partner-Den you warn't de one (;
cause de one what l squeeze her ham
she done squoze back.-LyF.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22

@-Age takes its pleasure from mem.
ory, youth centres its joys in the hope
offuture; philosophy, which belongs
neither to the young nor the old exclu-
sively, has regard to the present, and
sobers its visions of what is to come by
the experience of what has already gone
before.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22
How Hawks and Owls Eal
Atlanta Constitution.

Capt. Tom Dangston who is one of
Atlanta's most enthusiastic sportsmen
says: did you ever notice an owl or
hawk preparing meal on birda The
difference in their method is very great.
A hawk will first pick all the feathers
off the bird and then pick it to pieces
as it is devoured. He goes at it in a
very systematic and dainty manner.
Not so with an owl. After killing a
bird an owl swallows it whole, feathers
and all. He then sits quietly, and in
an hour or so you will see the owl move
his neck about as if he was trying to
untangle a knot in it. Then he will
sort of hump up his back, lower his head,
and the next moment bunch of feath-
ers will come out of his mouth. The
operation shows that the owl divests the
bird of its feathers after swallowing it,
while the hawk plucks out every feather
and quill before he takes bite.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-22

B0@The real difference between men
is energy. A strong will, a settled pur-
pose and invincible determination can
accomplish almost anything; and in
this lies the distinction between the great
men and little men.